Project Grant 19IG11132650267

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service awarded a $196,000 Cooperative Agreement to the International Association of Wildland Fire (IAWF) under the State & Private Forestry Cooperative Fire Assistance program (CFDA 10.698). This funding supports IAWF's efforts to enhance collaboration in wildland fire management over a three-year period from April 2024 to December 2026. Through this Cooperative Agreement, IAWF will organize major international conferences and facilitate...

The National Science Foundation Division of Polar Programs awarded a $499,169 project grant to Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc. to conduct research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: WILL CHANGES IN VEGETATION COMPOSITION SLOW CLIMATE-DRIVEN WILDFIRE GROWTH IN THE BOREAL FORESTS OF NORTHWESTERN NORTH AMERICA?" from November 1, 2021 through October 31, 2024. Under this award, Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc. will lead collaborative research to analyze whether changes in boreal...

The Department of Agriculture Forest Service awarded a $106,810 Cooperative Agreement under its International Forestry Programs (CFDA 10.684) to the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), an international non-profit organization, for the "Mangrove Monitoring for Climate Change Mitigation in India" project. The project, with a period of performance from June 27, 2023, to June 1, 2025, supports CIFOR's research and policy engagement activities related to monitoring...

This federal Project Grant award of $106,000.00, provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service under the International Forestry Programs (CFDA 10.684), supports efforts to improve forest policies and practices globally, address climate change, and conserve critical forest environments and resources. The funding will be used by the Canadian Forest Service at Natural Resources Canada's Great Lakes Forestry Centre to validate a predictive framework to guide the selection and release...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service awarded a $820,258 Cooperative Agreement to Washington State University (WSU) on September 3, 2024 under the International Forestry Programs (CFDA 10.684). The purpose of this award is to enhance methods to identify wood species and origin through chemical properties analysis. WSU, a public land-grant research university, will leverage its expertise in geochemical laboratory analysis, environmental DNA sample processing, and specialized...

This federal Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) under the USGS Research and Data Collection program (CFDA 15.808) provides $100,000 to Wageningen University in the Netherlands to enhance forest monitoring capabilities through advanced satellite technology. The key activities under this award include: Adapting deforestation alert methods to meet specific country needs and implementing these methods in open-source platforms like R, SEPAL, and Google Earth Engine...

The Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management Idaho Region awarded a $441,192 Cooperative Agreement to Colorado State University (CSU) through the Joint Fire Science Program (CFDA 15.232) to address challenges facing natural resource and wildland fire managers in the Southern Rockies region. The funding will support CSU in continuing to grow and sustain a community of practice for wildland fire knowledge exchange, expanding engaged audiences through effective knowledge exchange...

This $576,760 McIntire-Stennis Cooperative Forestry Research Program award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (CFDA 10.202) will support forestry research activities at the University of Illinois from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2026. The key objectives are to determine if environmental DNA (eDNA) can be used to assess outcomes of forest creation or restoration for wildlife conservation, and to evaluate the impacts of forest management...

The Department of Agriculture Forest Service awarded a $599,940 cooperative agreement to World Forest Id Association from September 2022 through August 2025 under the International Forestry Programs (CFDA 10.684) federal grant program. Through this award, World Forest Id will accelerate impact in Latin America by extending the Forest Service's efforts to improve forest policies and practices internationally, address climate change, conserve and protect critical global forest environments and...

This Project Grant award for $600,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) will fund the development of an interactive web-based platform called OpenForest4D. This platform will enable the generation of high-quality, research-grade estimates of forest structure and above-ground biomass across large spatial and temporal scales by applying novel statistical and AI models to a fusion of multi-source remote sensing data. The University of Florida...